Cut off from supplies and surrounded on every side, the German 6th Army faced its final days in the ruins of Stalingrad. Soviet offensives destroyed airfields, grounded supply planes, and shattered ...
In just one minute, Google Earth takes us across the turning point of World War II—the Battle of Stalingrad. Beginning with the German Sixth Army’s drive through the steppe, the map zooms into the ...
This week on the Stalingrad front, the Russians scored their biggest victory in nearly a year. In its immediate scope and consequences, the victory was “local”—the culmination of a prolonged, hitherto ...